tax credits!!!!!!!!!!

anyone here get tax credits? anyone know anything about tax credits?
i fill the form's in they send me accurate to the number on my p60 and have just had a loverly letter from them saying YOU OWE US £1700!!!!!
now i hate debt !! and it makes me feel ill to know that i have done everything right and still the inland revenue/tax credits have created this dept for me.
what can you do? they just wont listen on the fone?
a very pi$$ed off
kwak zzr!!

Very common complaint and plastered all of the news. They are crap and overpay regularly.

EDIT: You can pretty much do nothing except not spend it all next time. They overpaid us by £600 and are reclaiming it over the next couple of years through smaller payments.

[timwilky]

Poor you, You try to use tax credits to get something out of Gordon. How nieve.


These days, I just give. What incentive is there for being honest and hard working. 40% tax, extra added to my NI payments, stealth taxes, pension fund raided, Rates and utility bill inflation well out of sync with salary. New labour help the working man?.. NFC Help themselves morelike

I'm still paying back a shed load of overpayment

Useless b'stards

Since last year I've lost
1. My job
2. My car
3. My house
4. The paltry tax credits we were getting cos they claim we earn too much

I filled in all the forms correctly and for my troubles just get kicked inthe face. In the past 7 years I have paid out over £70k in tax not to mention the higher rate NI and my scumbag ex husband gets benefits while we starve!! Can't claim income based JSA (cos my other half earns too much), income support (cos my OH works) and yet the government and his ex wife takes all our money.
I hate the current government, maybe they would like to feed and clothe my kids when it finally all goes wrong and we end up homeless too.

OK, gonna crawl back under my stone now.

kind of glad i'm not on my own, have you noticed that the nice people on the other end of the phone(at tax credits) know less than yourself. criminal it is!!
last week i had no dept now ive got nearly 2k

Originally Posted by Frogette

Since last year I've lost
1. My job
2. My car
3. My house
4. The paltry tax credits we were getting cos they claim we earn too much

I filled in all the forms correctly and for my troubles just get kicked inthe face. In the past 7 years I have paid out over £70k in tax not to mention the higher rate NI and my scumbag ex husband gets benefits while we starve!! Can't claim income based JSA (cos my other half earns too much), income support (cos my OH works) and yet the government and his ex wife takes all our money.
I hate the current government, maybe they would like to feed and clothe my kids when it finally all goes wrong and we end up homeless too.

OK, gonna crawl back under my stone now.

I think you should blame the lack of equality like the news is right now......its his fault for being male

sorry to hear that Frogette, i am thinking simalir to you about this goverment.

i get tax credits both child and working and I was underpaid last year by £900 not that I knew I was getting underpaid, so next few months getting an additional £300 so i love tax credits.

i get more in tax credits than i do in wages, which is probably just as well or me and kids would be starving while ex hubby goes gliding etc at weekends, living life to the full.

but on a high note divorce should be final in about 6 weeks woohoo

nice to hear a sucsess story of tax credits! but beware they aint ball'sd up and ask you to pay it back next year.